http://jakeo.org/blog brain_get_contents(jake_olsen); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:11:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I went off a while ago how I'd never buy an iPhone. I then ate those words. We created an application which is the thing I have been dreaming of since the thought of Urbanverb in 1999. Urbanverb was never built, but Platial was, and so now is Platial Nearby. It's ... http://jakeo.org/blog/2008/07/25/platial-on-the-iphone-nearby/ Manny got a mix on XLR8R. --jake http://jakeo.org/blog/2008/07/11/dj-magneto-talk-about-the-motherland/ It's been a minute. Our beautiful daughter Quinn has been with us for 5 months now almost. Launched this. Doing a lot of work with Solr and EC2. I'll try to update more regularly. --jake http://jakeo.org/blog/2008/07/11/busy/ The Dept. got a new website last Thursday. Dept. of Skateboarding Today, they make the front page of Digg. Nice job guys. --jake http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/10/08/dept-of-skateboarding/ I bought an iPhone, so I at least the words in the title of this post. Even with Apple's closed-source approach I blasted in that post, the iPhone is pretty active in open-source development considering it's short two month existence. Phones are legal to unlock, as granted by the DMCA exemptions ... http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/09/12/eating-words/ I would say so: http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/09/04/unattended-mailbox/ In follow-up to my old post about switching to Ubuntu full-time, I did the deed last April. Here's how it went: 1) Switched to Vista Ultimate. Found that key software such as firewall and antivirus didn't work. 2) Got scared about not running firewall and antivirus. 3) Went back to XP. 4) Two weeks... 5) Feisty ... http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/08/28/follow-up-on-windows-to-ubuntu/ Internet + Internet2 + new Internet = Internets Credit to my father who made this observation. http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/04/16/the-internets/ When I'm browsing, I often double-click to select a word for a clipboard, another search, whatever. My surprise tonight when I noticed NYT had hijacked my double clicks to open their reference search, which is powered by Answers.com, and is mostly useless and non-contextual. Which is how I was taught that Gibson ... http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/03/18/mel-gibson-guitars/ I don't normally paste code up here. I don't know why. If people find it interesting, maybe I'll post more. At the sake of alienating my 4 readers, I wanted to post this so anyone else encountering this ridiculous bug in Mac Firefox regarding CSS opacity with Flash transparency could find ... http://jakeo.org/blog/2007/03/16/css-opacity-and-flash-transparency-in-mac-firefox/